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Essay number 237
Environmental problems are too big for individual countries and individual persons to
address. In other words, we have reached the stage where the only way to protect the
environment is at an international level. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this
opinion?
Climate change is a phenomenon affecting all people in all walks of life, from individual
citizens to whole countries and huge multinational companies. Therefore, I disagree with
the notion that the only way to address the environmental problems is at international
level. I firmly believe that this colossal problem can only be handled if all individuals
contribute; all governments take steps at national level and also join hands at an
international level.
Many steps can be taken at the national and international level. By imposing restrictions on
emissions and by strictly monitoring waste disposal from factories, plants and businesses,
governments would go a long way towards preventing climate change. Furthermore,
governments around the world should come up with solutions to help prevent imminent
environmental disaster. The Kyoto Agreement in the 1990s tried to create international
consensus to limit industrial emissions of gases. Many countries which are part of United
Nations signed this agreement according to which they would not allow any industries to be
set up which emitted more than 5.2% carbon dioxide.
Some people claim that individual action is irrelevant in the face of massive, wide-scale
prevention policies set and controlled by governments. On the other hand, it is also a fact
that individual action combined with governmental action can do a lot more to prevent
climate change than if individual citizens were not involved. In a world of six billion people,
if everyone stopped wasting water, disposed of their rubbish properly, started accepting
recycled material and stopped succumbing to consumerism then it would go a long way in
solving the problem of environment.
To put it in a nutshell, I pen down saying that individual citizens cannot sit back and say it is
someone else’s responsibility to protect the environment; we must all play our part -
individual citizens and governments at the national and international level.
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